Home Cleveland Cavaliers Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Ok, the pick may be safe!! Whew! It is up to the ping pong balls. This system needs to be changed. It is ridiculous that you have to root against your team to get a draft pick. And fooling around with a top 10 pick is on the GM--shouldn't gamble with it. The Cavs have had two number 1 picks lately. They shouldn't even be eligible for a top ten pick.

The game highlights one thing again. The Pistons guards have not produced in crunch time all year. Yes, you could throw Josh into the mix but it is the guards that initiate the offense. I think Singler hit one shot in the last 5 minutes but not much other production from the guards when the game got close. Put the Cleveland guards: Jack and Waiters on the Pistons and you would have a pretty serious team.

It's obvious that all of the players and coaches for both teams wanted to win the game.

Perhaps management or ownership is hoping for losses, but not the folks down on the floor. When the Cavs won, they were ecstatic like they won a championship. The Pistons were dejected both on the floor and in the locker room afterwards.

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Singler was plus 2 on the fact the other starters around him had pretty darn good games. JJ was playing power forward vs. a real center for much of the first half - much of the time with Smith at center. The coach craftifly engineered this loss.

I've been giving Lee grief for awhile for the whole agenda thing, but maybe he's onto something. I mean, the Pistons have no real reason to win at this point - they're 5.5 games out with 11 to play, and it's like the team freezes up at the end of ball games. They completely abandon any semblance of an offense and fall back on the "watch Smith and Jennings take bad jumpers" strategy that, game after game, has been shown not to work. Anybody that knows anything about basketball can see this, and yet the team keeps doing it, day in and day out. Are they stupid? Maybe, I suppose, but this has stayed through two coaches now. I kind of think that the directive may be coming from up top to let them hero-ball their way to losses.

Because they had no business losing tonight. They were kind of pounding on Cleveland for most of three quarters, and then, as is typical, the bottom fell out. It's almost not worth writing about because it keeps happening, but there was that late collapse again, mostly due to their inability to run anything resembling an offense at the end of games. I don't understand why it's not a point of discussion.

I will say, however, that I'm glad they lost; I was smiling through the whole thing. I'm looking forward to the day when a win is more valuable to the team than a loss, because this is just a sad, sad season.

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Look at the defensive end, and look how Singler could not guard anybody. This gave Cleveland good scoring ops time after time down the stretch. And the coach did nothing about it except applaud it.

His offense seemed to make up for it as he drained 4 threes and ended up plus for the game. Notice how on the final possession, the cavs targeted stuckey, whose short flipper arms could do nothing against an nba jump shot.

His offense seemed to make up for it as he drained 4 threes and ended up plus for the game. Notice how on the final possession, the cavs targeted stuckey, whose short flipper arms could do nothing against an nba jump shot.

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Actually, Mike Brown said after the game that he told Waiters to drive because he figured Stuckey would foul him.

Character means more to me than anything and integrity is a close second..this team has niether and is an embarrassment to the standards that was set before them. They dont deserve to wear the championship colors. What are yall going to do when they battle for the lottery again next year?